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...sunny afternoon last May, just two days before Mother's Day, a parcel arrived at the two-story brick home of Howard and Joan Kipp, in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn. The package was addressed to Joan, 54, a supervisor of guidance counselors in New York City's public schools. Standing in her kitchen, Mrs. Kipp tore off the brown wrapping paper and found the Quick and Delicious Gourmet Cookbook. She opened the cover. Suddenly there was a flash, and two .22-cal. bullets tore into her chest. Kipp came running into the room and discovered...
...bits of open space along Waikiki Beach, where high-rise hotels and condominiums have sprouted like goldenrod along a highway. Back in 1905, the military bought the entire 72-acre tract for $200,000. David Stockman, the President's Director of the Office of Management and Budget, values the parcel today at upwards of $220 million. There is one drawback for potential buyers: the beachfront property is not zoned for development, and many Hawaiians would like to keep it that...
...financing energy drilling and exploration projects. The lending was made possible by a common practice called overlining. Under federal regulations, a bank cannot make loans to any one borrower that amount to more than 10% of its capital. One way around that restriction is for a small bank to parcel out shares in proposed large loan deals to more important banks. During the oil-drilling boom that peaked last December, Penn Square found big-city bankers more than willing to participate in the loans...
Harvard has outlined two projects for the Harvard Square area and construction has begun on the University Place and Parcel lb office and housing complex--worth a combined total of $100 million...
...tentative conclusion is that the lack of U.S. influence at the U.N. is due to our lack of skill in practicing international politics. It is also part and parcel of the decline of U.S. influence in the world...